Opinion Columns
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Syndicated columnist Byron York: Hunter Biden's $2 million 'sugar brother'May 12, 2022 1:00 am - One of the mysteries of the Hunter Biden matter is how the president's son, with no obvious sources of income, manages to maintain a grand lifestyle. For the last year o...
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Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: Redistricting proved to be much ado about not very muchMay 12, 2022 1:00 am - The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving overheated. Before looking at this cycle's results, a primer on the su...
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The gap between white students and others has been narrowing, but teacher pay makes it unsustainableMay 10, 2022 1:00 am - Over the last two decades, standardized test scores for American schoolchildren have been on the rise. Between 1996 and 2017, the results on the National Assessment of E...
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Syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders: Student loans: payment optionalMay 05, 2022 1:00 am - Last year, President Joe Biden nixed the idea of a huge student loan forgiveness package when he told The New York Times' David Brooks, "The idea that you go to Penn and...
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Guest columnist Javeed Akhter: U.S. demonstrating openness that India is suppressingMay 05, 2022 1:00 am - Listening to the constant barrage of news about the anti-Muslim incidents coming from India, I entered the month of Ramadan in a gloomy mood. Although I am a deeply patr...
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Roe repeal would force daunting dilemma on women seeking abortionMay 04, 2022 1:00 am - I am furious that a conservatively stacked Supreme Court reportedly has decided to strip abortion care from millions of people of reproductive age. By ignoring half a ce...
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Guest columnist Amy Gehrke: Public rejects extremism of Illinois abortion policyMay 04, 2022 1:00 am - Roe v. Wade created an erroneous "right" to abortion that has no standing in the United States Constitution. We believe that the leak of the United States Supreme Court ...
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Syndicated columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Journalism is in search of the iPod/Napster solutionMay 03, 2022 1:00 am - It's no secret that journalism is struggling. News deserts exist where local publications have folded, and in other places corporate ownership has replaced hometown fami...
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Guest columnist state Sen. Mark Walker: Nuclear energy ban holds back our climate, economic successMay 03, 2022 1:00 am - Last year, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Climate & Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA), a nation-leading initiative dedicating Illinois to a 100% carbon-free energy gri...
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Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: Will punishing the mouse end Florida cronyism?May 01, 2022 1:00 am - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed legislation that strips Walt Disney World of its independent, special district status after the company objected to the state's...